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California Panel Recommends Dumping Diebold

sdw3u writes "Wired reports that a voting panel urged California officials to stop using a voting machine made by Diebold Election Systems, and recommends that the state consider filing civil and criminal charges against the company." There's also an AP story. We covered the hearing yesterday, with Diebold admitting that their machines had numerous problems.

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  1. Amazing by Luminari · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only took numerous voting irregularities and complete admission of guilt. Glad to see our swift democracy in action.

    1. Re:Amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny


      Die boldy, Diebold.

  2. Now here's the question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...did the voting machine screw up the vote to get rid of the voting machines that were screwing up?

  3. Let's wait for the recount. by Tenebrious1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did the voting panel use paper ballots or Diebold machines in their decision to dump Diebold?

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  4. Apple by JHromadka · · Score: 4, Funny
    At Apple's shareholder's meeting, someone jokingly asked if Apple could help out with the voting booth problem.

    To more applause and laughter, one shareholder asked if Apple would put its innovation to work and make a voting machine for the state of California.

    "We have no plans to do that," said a laughing Jobs. "Hopefully they won't base it on Windows when they do make one."

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  5. Halloween installment of This Modern World by The+I+Shing · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Halloween installment of This Modern World from 2003 mentions this frightening topic. In case anyone here didn't see it, here's the link.

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  6. Re:I AM THE KING OF THE PLURALISTIC PEOPLE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Indeed a filter could conceivably be on crack. The filter is really an army of one-handed, blind monkeys. They get crack on Fridays and beer on Sundays. It helps them stay motivated.

  7. Result of the Panel by Downside · · Score: 5, Funny

    The five person voting panel voted 57 to 3.14 in favour of getting rid of the Diebold machines...

  8. Endemic US voting problems by melonman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would it be useful to have UN observers to ensure free and fair elections?

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  9. Re:Online Banking Model by Azghoul · · Score: 3, Funny

    We know that New York is going to go to Kerry, no matter what happens during the campaign. NY's liberal leaning is a foregone conclusion.

    You don't think the Stonecutters would pay a lot of money to DDOS all the servers in NY?

  10. Voting Assistant by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Clippy: I see you are trying to cast a vote, would you like help choosing your candidate?

    Individual clicks 'Yes'

    • Click here for Bill Gates
    • Click here for %HTTP 404 Error 'Candidate Not Found'
    • Click here for %HTTP 404 Error 'Candidate Not Found'
    • Click here for Bill, umm Senator Palpatine
  11. Re:Diebold voting machines by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And this was just standing up for my Christian beliefs. I wasn't flaming or putting anybody down.

    Praise the Lord, brother!

  12. Re:Good! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Exactly! I find most democrats far to conservative for my liking.

    Ultra Left Liberalism, now that's where it's!

  13. Chad by The+Angry+Mick · · Score: 2, Funny

    Naw.

    They let Chad make the decision. He wasn't doing anything anyway, just hanging around, dangling his opinions. Some of the women on the panel thought his dimples were cute . . .

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  14. What a name by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Diebold". SCO should have chosen that name, if you ask me. Well, maybe Diegreedy would be better, but too long.

  15. Re:Good! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...Although I believe the lititgation will fall flat on its face...

    Boobs on the mind, eh?

  16. Re:Good! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Who let Michael Moore post on this board?

  17. Re:Why do you need voting machines? by absurdist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because as Americans, it's our God-given, constitutional right to take a perfectly good, simple, working process, and fuck it up beyond recognition by application of successive layers of increasingly complex technology.

  18. Re:Online Banking Model by dgatwood · · Score: 2, Funny
    105 million votes in the U.S., over a thirteen hour period. That's 8 million votes an hour, 134,000 votes per minute, 2243.5 votes per second. Use something like Akamai for your text and graphics infrastructure. Count on about 4k of TCP/IP traffic per vote for the actual subission. That's about just shy of 9 MB/sec or 90 Mb/sec of data throughput for the entire country. Were it not for the need for encryption, the entire country's vote counting could be handled by a single desktop computer with enough CPU power left over for someone to play Duke Nukem Forever or whatever....

    So I ask again, what's this distributed crap?

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  19. Re:You have never met someone with Parkinson's by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 2, Funny
    Let me just say that anyone I've known with Parkinson's (and that's at least three people) have all become quite angry when anyone tries to help them. That doesn't stop them from spilling milk all over the floor, but it gives them the dignaty to clean it up after.
    At least, when it comes to scrub-up, their ailment helps them...